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Skylable SX is a reliable, powerful, fully distributed cluster solution for your data storage needs. It can aggregate the disk space available on multiple servers and merge it into a single storage system. The cluster makes sure that your data is always replicated over multiple nodes (the exact number of copies is defined by the sysadmin) and synchronized. It has built-in support for deduplication, client-side encryption, on-the-fly compression, and much more.
Ada EL is a library which implements an expression language similar to the JSP and JSF Unified Expression Languages (EL). The expression language is the foundation used by Java Server Faces and Ada Server Faces to make the necessary binding between presentation pages in XML/HTML and the application code written in Java or Ada.
BURDShell is a shell with common commands to help the developer manage and speed up their common tasks. It manages sites, databases, repos, backups, and apps. Once set up, the developer can enjoy the speed of setting up projects with the assurance of fast, restorable version controlled backups.
PGObject::Simple::Role provides an interface to the PGObject service locator for Moo and Moose Perl classes. This service locator is intended to integrate Perl objects with PostgreSQL user-defined functions, and this uses the "simple" mapping approach. Between PGObject::Simple::Rrole and PGObject::Util::DBMethod, it is possible to write fully-declarative classes in which all calculation logic is handed off to database functions.
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The market for consumer Voice over IP (VoIP) services boomed in 2006, with Europe leading the way, reports In-Stat. Total Voice over IP (VoIP) subscribers worldwide increased by 34 million subscribers in 2006, the high-tech market research firm says. "Europe showed the largest gain in consumer VoIP subscribers," says Keith Nissen, In-Stat analyst. "The European consumer VoIP market increased by over 14 million subscribers last year. The European VoIP market is being aided by local loop unbundling (LLU), the introduction of cable telephony and triple-play service bundles, as well as operator consolidation. In contrast, US wireline operators added only 4 million VoIP subscribers in 2006. No one seems interested in selling anything other than plain-old-telephone-service". Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
The research, "Europe Leads the Booming Consumer VoIP Market", covers the worldwide market for Voice over Internet Protocol. It provides forecasts for global VoIP subscribers, segmented by region, through 2011. It also includes analysis of major VoIP markets around the world. Analysis of market drivers and challenges is provided. For more information on this research or to purchase it online, please visit: http://email.in-stat.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBAYn0M3aZa0K560FEYM0Ey


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Daryl Lim teaches intellectual property (IP) law as well as antitrust law. His current courses are Patent and Trade Secret Law, Antitrust Law, IP and Antitrust Law and the IP overview course. Professor Lim's articles have been published in leading IP law reviews and books in the U.S, Europe, and Asia, including the Stanford Technology Law Review, the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, and the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. He was cited in a 2013 World Intellectual Property Organization Report on patents and the public domain. His book, Patent Misuse and Antitrust: Empirical, Doctrinal and Policy Perspectives, was recently published by Edward Elgar Publishing. His newest projects include the patent and IP-antitrust sections of Intellectual Property: Law, Policy and New Perspectives, an IP casebook, which will be published by West Publishing.
Professor Lim was co-consultant on a Supreme Court of the United States Brief Amici Curiae filed by the American Antitrust Institute in Bowman v. Monsanto Co., 133 S. Ct. 1761 (2013), a case involving patented genetic traits. In 2013 he was appointed a peer reviewer for the Max Planck Institute's International Review of IP and Competition Law (IIC), one of about thirty reviewers worldwide in recognition of his "knowledge and skill in the field." He is also a peer reviewer for the Yale Law Journal. His views on current IP developments have been featured in legal publications including the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and the Daily Journal (California), as well as mainstream media sources such as the ABC News website, Yahoo! News and the Digital Journal. Professor Lim has contributed to practitioner-focused publications by American Bar Association, and gives presentations to judges, government officials and attorneys both in the United States and abroad.
Professor Lim has graduate law degrees from Stanford University and the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also has an undergraduate degree in law from NUS, as well as a degree in economics and management from the University of London (London School of Economics) which he pursued concurrently with his law degrees at NUS. At Stanford Law School, he received the Franklin Family Fellowship, and was awarded a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Research Grant. He served as an intern at the chambers of Chief Judge Randall R. Rader at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and for Commissioner William E. Kovacic at the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to coming to John Marshall, Professor Lim was the Inaugural Microsoft Teaching and Research Fellow at the Fordham University School of Law.
Professor Lim was an associate at Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore's largest law firm and consistently voted as a leading IP practice there. He worked on litigation and arbitration matters as well as advised clients on IP and technology issues. After leaving practice, he was a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for IP and Competition Law in Munich, Germany, and the Queen Mary IP Research Institute in London, UK.
Intellectual Property: Law, Policy and New Perspectives (with Hugh C. Hansen & Susan Scafidi), Interactive Casebook Series, West Publishing (forthcoming 2014)
Patent Misuse and Antitrust: Rebirth or False Dawn?, 20 Mich. Telecom. & Tech. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2014)
Self-replicating Technologies and the Challenge for the Patent and Antitrust Laws, 32 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 131 (2013)
Patent Misuse and Antitrust: Empirical, Doctrinal and Policy Perspectives, Edward Elgar Publishing (2013)
"A Critical Assessment of the Legal and Economic Framework of IP-Competition Interface in Singapore" (with Ashish Lall) in Getting the Balance Right: Intellectual Property, Competition Law and Economics in Asia (Robert Ian McEwin ed.), Hart Publishing (2011)
Misconduct in Standard Setting: The Case for Patent Misuse, 51 IDEA 559 (2011)
"Innovation and Access: Legal Strategies in the Interface Between Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law" in Firms' Legal Strategies: How Corporations Use Law to Improve Performance (Antoine Masson & Mary J. Shariff eds.), Springer Publishing (2010)
Post-eBay: A Brave New World?, European Intellectual Property Review (October 2010)
"Regulating Access to Databases through Antitrust Law: A Missing Perspective in the Database Debate" in Patent v. Competition: A Legal Debate (C. Sri Krishna ed.), ICFAI University Press (2009) Originally published in 2006 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 7
Beyond Microsoft: Intellectual Property, Peer Production and the Law's Concern with Market Dominance, 18 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 291 (2008) Reprinted in International Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Vol. 10 (H. Hansen ed.), Hart Publishing (2008)
"Beyond Microsoft: Intellectual Property, Peer Production and the Law's Concern with Market Dominance" in International Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Vol. 10 (H. Hansen ed.), Hart Publishing (2008)
Copyright Under Siege: An Economic Analysis of the Essential Facilities Doctrine and the Compulsory Licensing of Copyrighted Works, 17 Alb. L.J. Sci. & Tech. 481 (2007)
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Spring Vegetable Carbonara
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Every week we will post a new meal! You can also find the new meal plan on the LightenUp4Life.com/mobile site.
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Next month, I'll be speaking on legal technology topics (with a real estate finance focus) at the University of Texas School of Law Mortgage Lending Institute. The MLI is "the" annual gathering of outside and in-house counsel on mortgage lending in Texas. The presentation will be a real scramble – too much to hit during… Continue Reading
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"My iPad Works!" Join Me at the Dallas Belo Mansion – we'll review my top 10 apps and morePosted in Technology (including Green Buildings)
Please come join us on Weds, April 25 at the 7:45a meeting of the Dallas Area Real Estate Discussion Group, at the Belo Mansion in downtown Dallas. I'll "show" you "how" I use an iPad in my work, with a focus on the top 10 apps used by me - and we'll cover much more. The focus is practical… Continue Reading
Using My iPad at Work: Apps that Work for Me (and a link to my iPad presentation)Posted in Technology (including Green Buildings)
Today I'll share my 10+ favorite apps, and some tips and resources, on "how" I use my iPad as I work in commercial real estate finance. The sessions will be a short hour "break" for the leadership of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys. This group is sharp. So the session will be quick witted,… Continue Reading
Using Your iPad at Work? Looking for Guidance? Try These 3 BooksPosted in Articles, Technology (including Green Buildings)
In several weeks, I'll be giving a presentation on using an iPad at work. The audience will be leadership and most active members of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys. (Yes, I'll be buying Jake a dinner.) I'll give a brief overview of "how " to use the iPad, accessories, initial steps and then jump… Continue Reading
Putting A Tablet To Work(out): My Favorite iPad Apps, iPad Blogs & MorePosted in Technology (including Green Buildings)
iPads are appearing in the hands of lawyers at my office at an amazing pace – and in the hands of people who I remember didn't know how to open an e-mail years ago. OK, I'll go a step further: tablets are now in the hands of people who in the past questioned me on… Continue Reading


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Sneaky New Linux Attack Discovered
Innovative back door looks like normal SSH traffic.
Security experts have announced the discovery of a Linux back door attack that they have pronounced "more sophisticated than we have seen in the past." This attack apparently breached a large hosting provider, providing access to usernames, passwords, email, financial records, and other personal information. Although some of this information was encrypted, investigators could not rule out the possible theft of encryption keys.
The attack was unique in its ability to conceal its own communication within SSH. According to the report, "… the back door did not open a network socket or attempt to connect to a command-and-control server. Rather, the back door code was injected into the SSH process to monitor network traffic and look for the following sequence: colon, exclamation mark, semi-colon, period (:!;.)."
The back door watches for this pattern and parses any traffic after the traffic is received. Hidden commands are encrypted using Blowfish and Base64 encoding.
According to the report, once the code is activated, the attacker can submit any command using the following syntax:
exec sh -c '[ATTACKER_COMMAND]'>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
The backdoor also supports several pre-configured commands and lets the attacker extract SSH connection data from the system.To detect the attack, search the traffic for presence of the initiation string (:!;.). The report at the Symantec site also describes a way to detect the attack through an SSHD process dump.
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KDE Announces Software Compilation 4.13
New release comes with better semantic search and improvements to Kontact.
Coverity: Open Source Code has Fewer Defects
Annual code quality report shows FOSS is more secure at all project size levels.
An Even Smaller Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced an even smaller version of the tiny computer that will fit into a DIMM slot.
Freaky Privilege Escalation Attack
A new class of problems lets a malicious app pre-configure an invisible privilege update.
Facebook Rolls Out New PHP-like Programming Language
New Hack language adds static typing and other conveniences.
Fedora Announces Innovative Crytography Policy System
New crypto policy system will offer easier configuration and more uniform security.
Shuttleworth Calls for Declarative Firmware
Ubuntu founder denounces insecurity in proprietary, close-source software blobs.
New TLS Attack Takes the S out of HTTPS
Vulnerability affects many Linux web servers
Munich Adopts Kolab
The Bavarian capital shuns Microsoft, Google, and other alternatives to implement an open source groupware solution.
Canonical Announces Ubuntu Smartphones
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We've taken the sleek, efficient design of our mid-eighties Summit Pack and modernized it for today's urban and mountain environments. This backpack's main compartment closes with a large flap pocket and holds your inventory of everyday goods, from books, lunch and a shell to climbing shoes and chalkbag. A zippered pocket beneath the lid stashes a wallet and phone. Inside, we've raised the padded laptop sleeve off the bottom of the pack to protect your computer from jarring knocks; it fits most 15-inch laptops, secures with a buckle closure, and doubles as an insulated hydration reservoir when you hit the trails. Human Curve® shoulder straps have an ergonomic flow to conform to your shoulders and upper chest for all-day comfort under loads. Accessory patches and a fixed webbing loop carry ice tools, crampons or a yoga pad. Made from durable 600-denier recycled polyester with a polyurethane coating and a Deluge® DWR (durable water repellent) finish.
- Recycled polyester offers perfect balance of weight and durability for everyday abuse
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First Impressions: Santa Cruz Nomad
Santa Cruz set out to build a new Nomad from the ground up to bring it back to meet the demands of a new type of racing.
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News: Five Bucks Could Net You This Bike
Buy 1 foot of singletrack for $5 and you could win your choice of any complete Santa Cruz Bicycles model, decked out in ENVE Composites wheels, Fox suspension and Shimano components. You'll also get a year's worth of free shuttles in Downieville. All proceeds go to the trailbuilding effort in the Downieville area.
Friday Five: Dicking About
To be a better mountain biker all it takes is to drop the seriousness and increase the silliness. A radical theory? Perhaps, but you should seriously give "not being serious" a try.
Dirty Words: Ten Years After in Iraq
I've been thinking about a kid I met near the Iraq-Iran border a little more than 10 years ago. I was in Kuwait taking care of logistics for USA TODAY reporters and photographers moving back and forth between the carnage in Bagdad and Fallujah and all those messed up places....
Video: Road to Rampage, Episode 7
What separates guys who compete in Red Bull Rampage from the rest of us? Besides that obvious, yawning gulf in skills? It's a mental thing--as this episode of "Road to Rampage" clearly illustrates.
Video: Yep, That's Gotta Hurt
Anyone who rides knows that a misplaced wheel and some pain are always just a millisecond away, but sometimes a video like this comes around and reminds you that it might be a good idea to re-read your Guide to Relocating Parts of Your Body, which has probably been collecting dust on your bookshelf.
FOR SALE: The Best Photos Ever
What's hanging on your walls? Ditch the Monet or Picasso and put up something worth showing off. We're selling professionally mounted, one of a kind photos--some of the best to have ever graced the pages of Bike. You only have a few weeks to snatch one up. Proceeds from the sale go to WORCA, to help support the great trails around Whistler.
Video/Gallery: Familiar Territory with Dustin Gilding
Let's say you bust your leg, spend four months recuperating and then face your first day back on the bike. How would that day unfold? How would you ride? A little rusty? A little timid? Not if you are Dustin Gilding. Here's some video and a photo gallery of Gilding's first day back on the bike. Amazing.
Video: 26 Ain't Dead
Twenty-six inch wheels are dead? Don't tell the guys at Cotic that. One of the best videos of the year. Check this out.
Video: XX1 Enduro–Stepping Up
With enduro racing quickly picking up speed all over the world, enduro riders have become an essential part in the development of a new generation of components, which combine light weight, durability and flawless performance during long and hard races. SRAM XX1 is an excellent example, as this video shows.
Exclusive: 2013 Heavy Pedal Tour–Mammoth
Southern California is a big place. Head east from Los Angeles and it doesn't take more than an hour or two (depending on traffic, of course) before you run out of houses and into the great wide open. Mammoth Mountain sits out there in the Southern Sierra: tall, imposing and full of great trails. Here's our ride report from the Heavy Pedal Tour 2013.
News: Wintertime Fat-Biking Documentary Nears Release
Fat biking ain't for everyone. Okay, that's an understatement. Fat biking draws more ire and ridicule than anything shy of a recumbent. The big, heavy tires. The general lack of suspension. The sheer What the F*ck-ness of the whole enterprise....it simply leaves a lot of people sputtering angrily. A new documentary, however, will soon make the case for fat biking America's frozen northlands.
Gallery: 2013 Heavy Pedal Tour – Mammoth Mountain
Mammoth had its peak in the mid to late `90s and then things went quiet for awhile. That, however, is something the resort hopes to change--as evidenced by the rash of new trails they've put on the mountain in the hopes of luring riders. Here's a glimpse of the goods.
Video: 2013 Heavy Pedal Tour–Mammoth
We were prepared to embrace the two-wheel drift on Mammoth's infamous mountain of pumice. Along with judicious use of wood for drops, jumps, and wall rides, Mammoth does not suffer a lack of iconic features to challenge and excite mountain bikers of all skill levels.
Video: 12 Months, 12 Stories–Time to Ride
With the racing season over, you might think that Jerome Clementz would take up residency on a couch somewhere--growing indolent and fat. Nothing, however, could be further from the truth. Clementz is still out there riding, roosting trails, defying exercise guru maxims about recovery periods... It looks like a very good life indeed.
Tested: 2014 Marin Attack Trail XT8
Marin's new Attack Trail XT8 would be a strong bike for someone who rides tight, technical terrain. The new Attack Trail is not as efficient and speedy a pedaler as some of the best all-mountain bikes, but it holds its own on climbs and makes for a competent all rounder.
Video: Ride the Alps Teaser 2
Not a huge leap of logic: Switzerland has mountains. Those mountains have trails. Those trails can be ridden. ...This seems to be the underlying logic of the upcoming film, "Ride the Alps" and the logic sure looks pretty. Here's a taste of it.
Tested: 2013 Scott Genius 720
If there was ever a perfect time to use the Swiss Army-knife metaphor for a bike, it's with the Scott Genius 720. This 650b-wheeled beast is the quintessential do-it-all trail machine. The heart of this bike is the TwinLoc system, which simultaneously controls both the Fox 34 fork and Genius Nude2 shock.
Video: The Best Colnagos of All Time
Few brands have had as much impact on cycling (and we're including our skinny-tired brethren here) as Colnago. Here's a quick tour of some of their "best" bikes--everything from a gold-plated Pope bike to crazy, futuristic models (hydraulic brakes, carbon frames and internal routing...back in the early `80s) that the cycling world is still just catching up to, decades later .
News: Kitsbow Shows Off Cold Weather Gear
Kitsbow recently expanded their product line to include cool-weather gear--just in time to fend off the miserable wet and cold of the winter season. The new products include two new base layers, arm warmers, and knee warmers.
News: Single-Ringin' It Gets a Boost
OneUp Components' new 42-tooth cog just might make ditching the front derailleur a feasible, and affordable, option for the masses. Here's the story.


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Mazda 3 review
The new Mazda 3 is a stylish, well-built hatchback that's fun to drive and cheap to run
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With its classy looks, well screwed together interior and engaging driving experience, the all new Mazda3 is a big statement by the Japanese manufacturer that it is attempting to take the fight to the Volkswagen Golf, Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra in the family hatchback battle.
The Mazda3 comes with a choice of three trim levels, the entry level SE, mid-range SE-L plus range-topping Sport and SportNav models. Mazda offers the 3 with either a 1.5-litre petrol, a 2.0-litre petrol or a 2.2-litre diesel engine and these units are undoubtedly one of the highlights of the Mazda3 range.
Mazda's SkyActiv technology is a range of features and advanced engineering solutions that aim to improve efficiency while retaining sharp driving dynamics. SkyActive tech is brought to bear across the Mazda3 range. The Skyactive engines start with the 98bhp 1.5-litre petrol and go up to the meaty 148bhp 2.2-litre diesel. Apart from the 1.5-litre petrol, all other engines across the Mazda 3 range are available with either a manual or automatic gearbox.
Our choice: Mazda 3 2.2D Sport
Over the years, Mazda has forged itself a strong name for building good-looking, affordable cars and the latest Mazda3 is no exception.
Undoubtedly influenced by the sleek and swoopy Mazda6 saloon, the Mazda3 has the much more understated looking Volkswagen Golf beaten in the styling department. This is especially true when you factor in that low roof and steeply rising waistline.
From the entry level SE model upwards, all models get alloy wheels, colour-coded door handles and mirrors as standard, while the SE-L gets bi-Xenon headlamps and LED running lights thrown into the deal. Top-spec Mazda3 Sport models also benefit from all of this kit, plus 18-inch alloy wheels.
Happily, Mazda has continued the stylish exterior design over to the inside and this gives the Mazda3 an attractive dashboard including digital dials for the rev counter and fuel gauge. Being a Mazda, the 3's cabin quality is superb and the soft-touch materials used throughout are a real treat. All the switchgear feels top-notch and the metal-finished air-conditioning controls are a real highlight.
Just as it hasn't scrimped on exterior kit, Mazda fits the 3 with a seven-inch tablet-style touchscreen as standard across the range, but does charge for it to be fitted with sat-nav. The system is accessed by a rotary controller (similar to that found in any new Audi) on the centre console and features clear graphics.
However, a minor criticism with the system would be that accessing small things such as radio presets requires the user to go through various sub menus.
Just as the styling hints, the Mazda3 has been conceived with keen drivers in mind and this becomes even more evident from when you slip into the low-slung seat.
You're faced with a light, leather-trimmed steering wheel which offers engaging steering feel, a precise short-throw six-speed gearbox and a brake pedal which offers progressive stopping power.
A twisty backroad is where the Mazda 3's nimble handling, strong grip and excellent chassis control really come to the fore. To inspire even more confidence, the Mazda3 offers neutral balance and steering with positive turn-in.
The Mazda3 is also fast, especially the range topping 2.2-litre diesel Sport, which packs 148bhp and has a 0-60 time of 8.2 seconds. The SkyActiv diesel engine also feels strong in-gear as a result of its muscular 380Nm torque level, but what's most impressive, is the petrol-like throttle response and smoothness of the engine.
The 2.0-litre naturally-aspirated 118bhp petrol Mazda3 is expected to be the bestseller, but it'll take some getting used to if you normally drive a turbocharged family hatch. Rather than being in the middle, most of torque on this Mazda 3 sits at the higher end of the rev range so you'll most likely have to be in a gear lower than you'd expect.
Surprisingly, Mazda hasn't compromised the pace of the Mazda3 for refinement and at idle, the 2.2-litre diesel is almost silent. Wind noise is virtually zero and the ride smooths out most bumps. However, it's not all perfect as potholes can send a shudder through the cabin and while it's quiet, there's still more road noise than in the Volkswagen Golf.
In addition to its reputation for building good looking and affordable cars, Mazda has a strong name for making reliable ones too.
In our 2013 Driver Power survey, Mazda ranked fourth out of 32 manufacturers and even more good news for owners of the new 3, is that it shares engines and parts with the excellent Mazda CX-5 SUV - the car that finished fifth in the 2013 Driver Power.
Euro NCAP awarded the 3 a five-star crash test rating and as standard, Mazda decks all models out with six airbags, stability control and city-safe low-speed collision avoidance.
Mid-range SE-L models upwards get automatic lights and wipers plus parking sensors. Sport Nav models can be chosen with lane departure warning and Mazda's rear vehicle monitoring system at an additional cost.
While the Mazda3 has the edge in terms of looks, it can't match the Golf for practicality. Rear passengers don't get as much legroom and headroom is 80mm less than in the Volkswagen. When you factor in the Mazda3's small side windows and dark trim, things really start to feel a bit cramped and claustrophobic.
Unsurprisingly then, the Mazda3 also trails the Golf when it comes to load taking. At 364-litres, the boot of the Mazda3 is significantly smaller than the 380-litres offered by the Golf and there are no shopping bag hooks or even a 12V power supply. Thankfully, though, the rear seats in the Mazda3 fold flat and it increases the boot space to 1,263 litres - just seven less than in the Golf.
What the Mazda3 lacks in boot practicality, it makes up in useful storage space scattered about the interior. Mazda has fitted deep door bins, a large, air-conditioned glovebox and a deep-lidded cubby between the front seats. Like the Golf, the Mazda3 gets plenty of cup-holders, two of which are hidden in the fold-out rear armrest.
Running Costs
Surprisingly, the most economical Mazda3 in the range is the one with the biggest engine, the 2.2-litre diesel. It returns a combined economy of 68.9mpg and has CO2 emissions of 107g/km. If you choose the same engine with the automatic gearbox, its combined cycle drops to 58.9mpg with CO2 levels rising to 129g/km.
The 98bhp 1.5-litre petrol manages a combined economy of 55.4mpg and 119g/km of CO2, but it feels a little sluggish. Therefore, we'd opt for the 2.0-litre petrol with 118bhp, the same combined cycle and emission levels of 129g/km CO2. There is also a 162bhp version of the 2.0-litre petrol engine, but the combined cycle drops to 48.7mpg with CO2 emissions of 129g/km.
Compared to the smaller turbocharged units found in the Volkswagen Golf and Ford Focus, Mazda has gone in the opposite direction by fitting the Mazda3 with mid-sized naturally aspirated engines. It claims they are more efficient, and you'll be able to get closer to the claimed economy figures in the real world.
The Mazda3 is expected to hold on to 40.5 per cent of its value after three years, according to our experts. What's more, private buyers will be saddened to heard that there's no pre-paid service pack.
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Looks like Mazda is on to another winner after decent successes with the CX-5 and the 6.
I prefer naturally aspirated petrol engines over the turbocharged petrol and diesels.
Mazda needs to say realistic with the pricing though.


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FISH, Juanita Mae, 66, of New Cumberland, WV, passed away Monday, September 10, 2012, at her residence.
She was born July 17, 1946, in East Liverpool, OH, a daughter of the late Joseph A. and Lucille V. (Porter) Narcavish.
Juanita was a homemaker.
Surviving are her husbandRichard Eugene Fishat home; three childrenRichard E. (Debbie) Fish, Jr., Newell, WV Michael Allen Fish, Wellsburg, WV Christian (Adrianna) Fish, New Cumberland, WV; one sister Loretta (Delmus) Postlethwait, New Cumberland, WV; one brother Joe Narcavish, East Liverpool, OH; six grandchildren Robert, Ariel, Brandi, Christian, Alexis and Natasha.
Friends will be received 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the Turley Funeral Home, where services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, September 13, 2012 with Ronald Fish officiating. Interment will follow in the New Cumberland Cemetery.


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In-person early voting is underway in Ohio. Find your nearest polling booth here.
The final presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney was last night. The general consensus from media pundits is Obama won by a substantial margin. But political scientists say debates typically have negligible electoral impact. In aggregate polling, Obama is up in Ohio by 1.9 points and Romney is up nationally by 0.6 points. Ohio is looking like a must-win state for both campaigns, so Obama's advantage there is a very bad sign for Romney. FiveThirtyEight, The New York Times' election forecast blog, has an explanation of how and why the current electoral landscape favors Obama.
In a follow-up to the debate, Romney will be visiting Greater Cincinnati Thursday.
A new motion by City Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan could encourage more people and businesses to make use of the city's LEED program. The program uses special tax exemptions to encourage buildings to be cleaner and greener.
Cincinnati's City Planning Commission approved Plan Cincinnati Friday. With the approval, the plan's only hurdle is City Council. If passed, the plan will reform city policies to put a new emphasis on the city's urban core. That means a cleaner, greener city with more transportation options, ranging from walking and biking to the streetcar and rail. CityBeat wrote about Plan Cincinnati here. The full plan can be found here.
Three Republicans in the state legislature, including Cincinnati's Sen. Bill Seitz and Rep. Louis Tehrar, introduced a bill that would require health insurance providers to cover autism. Critics say the move could cost small businesses too much during an economic downturn, but supporters say it's necessary to Ohio's mental health coverage requirement, which was passed in 2007. Seitz says the bill could also save money by bringing down special education costs.
In a sign of Ohio's education funding problems, one report found two of three Ohio school levies are asking for
additional funding. But Cincinnati Public Schools' (CPS) levy will only
not ask for extra funding or higher taxes; instead, it asks for funding
and taxes to remain the same. CityBeat covered Issue 42, the CPS levy, in-depth here.
A new report found Ohio students graduate with more debt than most of the nation. The report named the state a "high debt state" with an average of $28,683 in student loans — above the national average of $26,600.
Despite what a recent conflict between Commissioner Greg
Hartmann and Mayor Mark Mallory implies, Cincinnati and Hamilton County
are working together. The city and county are cooperating on the Banks
project, funding the Port Authority and operating the Metropolitan Sewer
Cincinnati is working harder to enforce a chronic nuisance
disorder. A property is classified as a chronic nuisance when it
surpasses a certain amount of crimes and violations. The law is meant to
hold property owners accountable for what happens in their buildings.
There are more signs that Ohio's fracking boom may not be
sustainable. Natural gas producers are not seeing the profits they
expected from the boom. For many, the boom is quickly turning into a
bust. Still, natural gas prices have massively dropped, and an analysis
at The Washington Post suggests natural gas could play an important role in reducing carbon emissions. CityBeat wrote in-depth about the fracking boom in Ohio and the faulty regulations on the industry here.
The Ohio Board of Regents is using a grant to award 1,300 associate degrees to transfer students over two years.
Fourteen recreational trails in Ohio will get $1.6 million in federal funding, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. However, none of the trails are in Hamilton County.
The key to humanity: cooked food.
In-person early voting is underway in Ohio. Find your nearest polling booth here.
The second presidential debate between President Barack
Obama and Mitt Romney took place last night. The general consensus from the
media is Obama won. Although the victory will likely inspire an Obama
comeback narrative for some political pundits, keep in mind political
scientists say debates typically have little electoral impact. But
debates can reveal substance, and The Washington Post has an
article "footnoting" the policy specifics from the debate. As of today,
aggregate polling shows Obama up in Ohio by 2.2 points and Romney up
nationally by 0.4 points. Ohio is widely considered a must-win for
Romney. Obama and Romney will have their final debate next Monday. CityBeat will be hosting an event at MOTR Pub in Over-the-Rhine during the debate. More info can be found on the event's Facebook page.
The Ohio Department of Education released its remaining
school report card data today. The data is meant to give Ohioans a clear
picture as to whether schools are improving. The data was delayed due
to an ongoing investigation into attendance rigging at Ohio schools. In
the new report card data, Cincinnati Public Schools was downgraded from
"Effective" in the 2010-2011 school year to "Continuous Improvement" in
the 2011-2012 school year. The new mark is still positive, but it is a
Down goes Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted's early voting appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. With the Supreme Court refusing to take up Husted's appeal, Ohio must allow all voters to vote on the weekend and Monday before Election Day. Husted also sent out a directive enforcing uniform voting hours for the three days. On Saturday, booths will be open 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. On Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. On Monday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
It seems City Council action was not enough to get Duke
Energy to budge on the streetcar. The local energy company says it wants
an operating agreement before it starts construction work. On Sept. 24,
City Council passed a funding deal that shifted $15 million from the
Blue Ash airport deal to the streetcar and established $14 million
through a new financing plan. The city says it will get the $15
million back if it wins in the dispute with Duke. The city claims it's
Duke's responsibility to pay for moving utility pipes and lines to
accommodate for the streetcar, but Duke insists it's the city's
The University Board of Trustees is expected to approve Santa Ono as UC's new president. Ono has been serving as interim president ever since Greg Williams abruptly resigned, citing personal reasons.
The Horseshoe Casino is really coming along. Casino owners are already booking meetings and events for spring 2013.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital announced a big breakthrough in combating muscular dystrophy. The hospital claims it successfully installed a device in a patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy that allows the patient's heart to pump blood to the body in the long term.
With Gov. John Kasich's recommendation, Ohio universities will have cheaper, quicker options for students. A new provision will require 10 percent of bachelor's degrees from public universities to be completable in three years instead of four.
Ohio's attorney general wants help in solving an unsolved
double homicide in Cincinnati. Attorney General Mike DeWine has recently
fixated on cold cases — previously unsolved cases that could be solved
with new information and tools.
Scientists found an earth-sized planet orbiting the star nearest to our solar system.
Newspapers all around the state — including The Cincinnati Enquirer, which labelled its article an "Enquirer Exclusive" (both The Toledo Blade and Columbus Dispatch ran a story with the same angle as The Enquirer)
— are really excited about a new poll that found Sen. Sherrod Brown
leads Josh Mandel in the U.S. senatorial race for Ohio's seat by 7
percent. But the poll only confirms what aggregate polling has been
saying for a while now.
Contrary to the claims of Mitt Romney's campaign, President Barack Obama does care about the work requirements in welfare-to-work reform. In fact, Obama is disapproving of Ohio's program, which his administration says has not enforced work requirements stringently enough. However, most of the blame is going to former Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, not Gov. John Kasich, a Republican.
The University of Cincinnati received a $3.7 million grant to increase the participation of women in science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. The grant comes from the National Science Foundation, a federal entity that funds science. The grant could help current problems with science research. One recent study found scientists prefer to hire male students over female students, pay male students more and spend more time mentoring men over women.
Local homeless groups managed to get a hold of a $600,000 grant to aid homeless military veterans. The grant will provide financial assistance and job training for the currently homeless and vets at risk of becoming homeless.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is raising subscription costs by 43 percent — from $210 a year to $300 a year.
City Council will host a special session today to get public feedback and work on the new deal meant to prevent further streetcar delays. The meeting will be at 10:30 a.m. at City Council Chambers, City Hall room 300, 801 Plum St.
Ohio is a swing state, which means we get a lot of political ads during the campaign season. Are you tired of them? Well, politicians don't seem to care. In 2008, both parties ran a combined total of 42,827 ads between April and September. In the same time period this year, the parties have run 114,840.
Citizens for Common Sense was formed to support Issue 4 on the November ballot, which changes City Council terms from two to four years. The initiative would let political candidates worry more about policy and less about campaigning, but some critics say it would make it more difficult to hold council members accountable.Research shows random promotions may be better for business. The study verifies the Peter Principle, which says many people are eventually promoted to positions beyond their competence.
Ohio charter school have largely failed to live up to their promises, according to The Columbus Dispatch. Charter schools were originally pursued by Ohio lawmakers to help find a suitable alternative to the state's struggling urban public schools. But in the latest school report cards, charter schools performed just as poorly as urban public schools. Charter schools are allowed to run a profit and skip on certain state rules and regulations, which was supposed to give them some leniency in implementing successful academic models.
Obamacare will lower average health care costs in Ohio's individual market, according to a study from RAND Corporation, a reputable think tank. Although premiums will rise as a result of the law, the tax credits offered in Obamacare will be more than enough to offset the increases. The numbers only apply to the individual marketplaces; anyone who gets insurance through an employer or public program falls under different rules and regulation. Still, the findings are good news for Obamacare as the federal government aims to insure 7 million people — and 2.7 million young, healthy adults among those — to make the individual marketplaces work. As part of Obamacare, states and the federal government will open online enrollment for new, subsidized individual insurance plans on Oct. 1, and the plans will go into effect at the start of next year.
The Medicaid expansion could insure more than 42,000 people in Hamilton County, according to the Ohio Poverty Law Center. As part of Obamacare, states are asked to expand their Medicaid programs to include anyone at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level ($15,856 for a single-person household). If states accept, the federal government will pay for the entire expansion for the first three years then phase down its payments indefinitely to 90 percent of the expansion's total cost. Earlier this year, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio released an analysis that found the Medicaid expansion would insure nearly half a million Ohioans and save the state about $1.8 billion in the next decade.Gov. John Kasich says he wants to slow down Attorney General Mike DeWine's facial recognition program and work with the Ohio legislature to review if changes are necessary. Kasich compared the program to federal surveillance programs like the NSA and FISA, which have come under scrutiny in the past few months after leaks unveiled broader snooping and data collection of Americans' private communications than previously expected. The facial recognition program allows police officers and civilian employees to use a photo to search databases for names and contact information; previously, law enforcement officials needed a name or address to search such databases. The program was criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union because knowledge of the program's existence was withheld from the public for two-plus months and an independent group never reviewed the program's privacy-protecting protocols.
Democratic City Council candidate Greg Landsman backed the second phase of the streetcar in a column Friday. The endorsement could be vital to the project's future because Landsman is widely considered a favorite in this year's City Council race.
JobsOhio's leaders plan to launch a public relations offensive to repair the agency's image. The privatized development agency has been criticized for its lack of transparency after media outlets uncovered that it was handing out tax credits to companies with direct financial ties to JobsOhio board members. Democrats argue the agency needs more transparency and checks on its recommendations, while Republicans, who created the agency to replace the Ohio Department of Development, claim the agency's privatized, secretive nature allows it to move more quickly with job-creating development deals.
The University of Cincinnati was named public university of the year by The Washington Center. The award recognizes UC for supporting experiential education through its partnership with The Washington Center, an independent academic organization that serves hundreds of colleges and universities by providing internships and other opportunities in Washington, D.C., for school credit.
Police busted a $1 million shoplifting ring in Ohio that targeted discount retail stores along the Interstate 75 corridor, such as Walmart, Meijer, CVS and Family Dollar.
State law will soon require vaccine immunizations against several diseases for children attending school.
Cincinnati-based Kroger is cutting health care benefits for employees' spouses on Jan. 1, but the plan will also increase pay, stabilize the company's pension fund and provide more benefits for part-time employees. Obamacare apparently played a role in the decision to cut spousal benefits, but Kroger says the most influential factor was rising health care costs all around the nation — a trend that has been ongoing for decades.
Here is a visualization of the urban heat island effect, which will make cities warm up much faster as global warming continues.
Could you survive the end of the universe? io9 tackles the question here.
City Council approved a $29 million plan that will shift $15 million from the Blue Ash airport deal to move utility lines and pipes in order to accommodate for streetcar tracks. The money will be reimbursed if a conflict with Duke Energy is settled in the city's favor. The city is currently trying to resolve the conflict over who has to pay for moving utility lines and pipes. If the city wins out, Duke will have to pay up, and the money from the Blue Ash airport deal will be put back where it belongs. If Duke wins out, that money could be lost forever — a worry Chris Smitherman voiced in the public City Council session. Smitherman, Charlie Winburn and P.G. Sittenfeld voted against the plan, and Roxanne Qualls, Laure Quinlivan, Yvette Simpson, Cecil Thomas, Wendell Young and Chris Seelbach voted for it.
CORRECTION: This blog originally said the entire $29 million plan will be reimbursed by
Duke. Only the $15 million from the Blue Ash airport deal will be
reimbursed if the city wins in the dispute.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted received a failing grade from Voters First Ohio and the Ohio Unity Coalition for the way he's handled the 2012 election. The left-leaning groups criticized Husted for taking away in-person early voting hours that were available in 2008 and issues regarding provisional ballots, wrongful terminations and misleading language on the November ballot.
The Controlling Board unanimously approved $4 million Monday to conduct a study to determine possible funding for the Brent Spence Bridge. The study will look at tolls and the viability of various public-private partnerships to see how the bridge will be paid for.
Jungle Jim's is opening an Eastgate location today, and people are apparently really excited for it.
The state launched a new website to connect Ohio job seekers and opportunities in the energy industry. The website presents opportunities in advanced energy, renewable energy, energy efficiency and gas and oil.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will be in southwest Ohio today,
and Obama will be in other parts of the state. The state is typically
considered a must-win for Romney and Ryan, but aggregate polling has looked worse lately for the Republican duo.
Speaking of Romney, he indirectly admitted he'll have to raise taxes on what he considers middle income. Remember when Republicans ran on tax cuts?
Another problem with global warming: Hotter days make people less productive, which greatly hurts economic output.
A Cincinnati research team found NFL players die often to Alzheimer's disease and Lou Gehrig's disease. The two diseases kill NFL players four times more often than the average U.S. population, and other neurodegenerative diseases kill them twice as often as the norm.
Having sex once a week instead of once a month is the "happiness equivalent" of making an extra $50,000 a year. Do not try that line at home.
In-person early voting is underway in Ohio. Find your nearest polling booth here.
The vice presidential debate is tonight. The debate will be between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan. After the last debate, some pundits are saying Biden needs to win this one to slow down the Romney-Ryan momentum. But keep in mind political scientists say debates have little to no electoral impact in the long term, so it's possible most of the post-debate polling in favor of Mitt Romney could indicate a temporary bounce. The debate is at 9 p.m. and will be aired on all the big networks. The full schedule of presidential debates can be found here.
Romney might campaign in Lebanon, Ohio this weekend. Ohio is considered a must-win for the Republican presidential candidate. Even with a post-debate bounce, Romney still looks to be the underdog in Ohio. The latest poll from NBC, Wall Street Journal and Marist shows Romney down six points to Obama among likely voters in the state with a margin of error of 3.1. The poll does show the race tightening from the eight-point gap measured on Oct. 3, but it's apparently not enough. By itself, the poll could be considered an outlier and too optimistic for Obama, but it actually echoes the latest CNN poll and aggregate polling taken after the debate. In aggregate polling, Romney is down 1.6 points in Ohio after the NBC/WSJ/Marist poll. Before the latest poll, he was down 0.8 points.
A new poll shows a slim majority of Ohioans now support same-sex marriage. The poll found 52 percent of Ohioans support it, while 37 percent want it to stay illegal. The poll gives a shot of optimism to Freedom to Marry Ohio, an amendment that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Supporters say the amendment could be on the Ohio ballot as soon as November 2013.
State Auditor Dave Yost wants to put the attendance fraud investigation in context. When talking with Gongwer yesterday, Yost explained that the potential data rigging going could have cost schools additional funding for at-risk students: "I suspect we probably have schools in Ohio that ought to be getting that extra money for those extra services to help those schools that are most at risk, and that money is not flowing because the data is not accurate."
Will county budget cuts hurt public safety? As the county
commissioners try to sort out the budget without raising taxes, Hamilton County's sheriff
department could see some cuts, according to Commissioner Greg Hartmann. He insists the cuts will not hurt public safety, however.
An Oct. 1 analysis by left-leaning Policy Matters Ohio found the casino tax will not be enough to make up for cuts in state aid. Even in cities hosting casinos, the extra tax revenue will only cover about half of cuts.
Only a few weeks remain in Hamilton County's free electronics recycling program.
A Nuns on the Bus tour is encouraging voters to support politicians that provide for the poor. The tour will avoid being partisan and mentioning candidates' names, but the general vibe of the tour implies support for Democratic candidates.
Josh Mandel, Ohio's Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, has gotten another rating from PolitiFact Ohio. This one is "Mostly False" for Mandel's claim that opponent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown has missed more than 350 votes in the Senate. Brown has only missed 21 out of 1,779 votes since he joined the Senate, and he hasn't missed any votes this year. The Mandel campaign claims the ad was keeping track of Brown's entire public career, but 83 of the votes Brown missed in that time period were in 2000, when Brown was in a car accident in which he broke his ribs and vertebrae.
The NBC/WSJ/Marist poll also had some bad news for Mandel. He was found to be down 11 points to Brown among likely voters. Mandel is now down 4.2 points in aggregate polling.
The right-leaning Tax Foundation ranked Ohio No. 39 for business tax climate. The conservative research group gave Ohio good marks for unemployment insurance and the corporate tax rate, but it criticized the state for its individual income tax and property tax. New York, New Jersey and California were at the bottom of the overall rankings, and Wyoming, South Dakota and Nevada were at the top.
Jobless claims fell to 339,000 — the lowest in four and a half years. Coupled with last week's employment numbers, the news indicates that an economic recovery is truly underway. However, jobless claims are very volatile, so it's uncertain whether the drop will stick.
Science has found some stars die in style.
The White House released a list of what cuts will be made in Ohio as part of mandatory spending cuts set to kick in March 1, which are widely known as the sequester. Among other changes, 26,000 civilian defense employees would be furloughed, 350 teacher and aide jobs would be put at risk due to $25.1 million in education cuts and $6.9 million for clean air and water enforcement would be taken away. President Barack Obama and Democrats have pushed to replace the sequester with a plan that contains tax changes and budget cuts, but they've failed to reach a compromise with Republicans, who insist on a plan that only includes spending cuts.
Community Council President David White told WVXU that the streets and sidewalks of the long-neglected neighborhood of Pendleton were previously crumbling, but the Horseshoe Casino's development has helped transform the area. With Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds, the city has budgeted $6 million in neighborhood development that has led to new trees, expanded sidewalks and the potential for further developments that will appeal to new businesses.
A surprise inspection of the private prison owned by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) on Feb. 22 revealed higher levels of violence, inadequate staff, high presence of gang activity, illegal substance use, frequent extortion and theft, according to the report from the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee (CIIC), Ohio's nonpartisan prison watchdog. The CIIC report found enormous increases in violence, with a 187.5-percent increase in inmate-on-inmate violence and 305.9-percent in inmate-on-staff violence between 2010 and 2012. Many of the problems are being brought on by inadequate staff, according to the report. The findings echo much of what privatization critics have been warning about ever since Gov. John Kasich announced his plans to privatize the state prison in 2011, which CityBeat covered in-depth here.
Kasich has highlighted funding increases in the education plan in his 2014-2015 budget proposal, but the plan also includes looser requirements for Ohio's schools. The plan will remove the teacher salary schedule from law, which sets a minimum for automatic teacher pay increases for years of service and educational accomplishments, such as obtaining a master's degree. It would also change the minimum school year from 182 days to 920 hours for elementary students and 1,050 for high school students, giving more flexibility to schools. CityBeat took an in-depth look at the governor's budget and some of its education changes here.
Ohio Democrats want to change how the state picks its watchdog. The governor currently appoints someone to the inspector general position, but Democrats argue a bipartisan panel should be in charge of making the pick.
Mayor Mark Mallory is in Spain to meet with CAF, the company constructing the cars for Cincinnati's streetcar project. Streetcar opponents, including mayoral candidate John Cranley, say the cars are being built too early, but the city says it needs the time to build the cars, test them, burn the tracks and train staff in the cars' use. CityBeat covered the streetcar and how it relates to the 2013 mayoral race here.
The amount of Ohio prisoners returning to prison after being released hit a new low of 28.7 percent in 2009. The numbers, which are calculated over a three-year period, indicate an optimistic trend for the state's recidivism statistics even before Gov. John Kasich's sentencing reform laws were signed into law.
Cincinnati's real estate brokers say the city manager's parking plan will revitalize Downtown's retail scene by using funds from semi-privatizing Cincinnati's parking assets to renovate Tower Place Mall and build a 30-story apartment tower with a parking garage and grocery store.
The University of Cincinnati was the second-best fundraiser in the state in the past year. On Feb. 20, UC announced it had met its $1 billion goal for its Proudly Cincinnati campaign.
On Saturday, Bradley Manning, the American citizen accused of leaking a massive stash of diplomatic cables and military reports to WikiLeaks, went through his 1,000th day in U.S. custody without a trial.
Popular Science has seven ways sitting is going to kill us all.
Prior to the launch of HealthCare.gov, the Obama administration said it needs to enroll about 2.7 million young adults out of 7 million projected enrollees — nearly 39 percent of all signups — for the law to succeed.
The reasoning: Because young adults tend to be healthier,
they can keep premiums down as sicker, older people claim health
insurance after the law opens up the health insurance market to more Americans.
But the numbers released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Monday — the first time the agency provided demographic information — show the law missing the target both nationally and in Ohio.
Roughly 19 percent of nearly 40,000 Ohioans who signed up for Obamacare were young adults between the ages of 18 and 34, according to the report. Not only does that fall below the 39 percent goal, but it also lags behind the national average of 24 percent.
In defense of the demographic numbers, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote in a blog post Monday that enrollments are demographically on pace with the 2007 experience of Massachusett, where state officials implemented health care reforms and systems similar to Obamacare through Romneycare.
Indeed, a report from The New Republic found just
22.6 percent of enrollees through the third month of Romneycare were young adults. That number rose to 31.7
percent by the end of the law's first year.
If Obamacare ends up at Massachusetts' year-end rate, it will still fall behind goals established by the White House. Still, Obamacare would be in a considerably better place than it finds itself today.
The disappointing demographic figure comes after months of technical issues snared HealthCare.gov's launch. Most of the issues were fixed in December, which allowed Obamacare to report considerably better enrollment numbers by the end of the year.
But the enrollment numbers — nearly 2.2 million selected a plan between Oct. 1 to Dec. 28 — still fall below the administration's projections to enroll 3.3 million by the end of December.
It's also unclear how many of those signing up for Obamacare actually paid for their first premium, which is the final step to becoming enrolled in a health insurance plan.
Given how Romneycare worked out in Massachusetts, it's possible signups for Obamacare could pick up before open enrollment closes at the end of March. Based on previous statements from the White House, Obamacare's success could depend on it.
Mayor John Cranley plans to address the city's long-term unemployment problems with a set of new initiatives, some of which could get support from the White House, he told CityBeat Thursday.
One of the initiatives is in direct response to President Barack Obama's call, heard by millions during the State of the Union Tuesday, to get private companies on board with ending discrimination against the long-term unemployed.
Specifically, Cranley says he helped get Procter & Gamble and other local companies to agree to join the president's initiative.
"It wasn't that hard to sell them on it, but they've got a lot of things going on," Cranley says. "Getting their attention and focus on these things is one of the great powers that I have. I can help ask people to give back in ways they just haven't thought of before."
With a visit to the White House planned for Friday, Cranley hopes his quick response to Obama's call could help the city land future federal grants for programs that address long-term unemployment.
As an example, Cranley points to a new White House initiative that asks cities to develop innovative pilot programs that help the long-term unemployed. The initiative will award federal grants, which Cranley estimates at a couple million dollars per city, to the 10 best proposals.
In preparation, the city is partnering with several local organizations, including the Workforce Investment Board and United Way of Greater Cincinnati, to develop a unique plan. How the city's proposal looks ultimately depends on the constraints set by the application requirements, but Cranley cited more educational opportunities and subsidies for companies that hire the long-term unemployed as two examples cities might undertake.
The proposal, however it looks, would come in addition to Cranley's Hand Up Initiative, which he plans to fund through this year's city budget. As part of the initiative, the city will first partner with Cincinnati Cooks, Cincinnati Works and Solid Opportunities for Advancement and Retention (SOAR) to provide more job training opportunities. Participants who graduate from those programs can then apply to the Transitional Jobs Program, which provides short-term, part-time work opportunities to people as they look for long-term, full-time jobs.
The initiative will begin as a pilot program for the first two years, but it could eventually expand with more partnerships and job training opportunities, according to Cranley.
If successfully carried out, Cranley's proposals could help break the long-term unemployment trends that keep so many Americans jobless in the first place.
In one study, Rand Ghayad of Northeastern University sent out 4,800 fake resumes for 600 job openings. Ghayad found people who had been out of work for six months or more very rarely got called back, even in comparison to applicants without work experience who were unemployed for shorter periods of time.
In other words, diminishing the discrimination on the employer's side or ongoing joblessness on the potential employee's side could be enough to land more people in jobs.
A proper solution to the issue could also go a long way to picking up the nation's sluggish job market. By the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' estimate, nearly 38 percent of the unemployed in December had been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer — the highest rate in six decades. In comparison, the rate was below 20 percent prior to the recession.
For Cranley, the initiatives also present an opportunity to address Cincinnati's abhorrent poverty rates by giving people a chance to obtain better-paying jobs.
"In the end, we want a city that isn't just good for future residents," Cranley says, referencing the economic momentum in Over-the-Rhine, downtown and uptown that might benefit future Cincinnatians. "We need a city solution that grows the capacity and builds the opportunities for residents who are already here and families that are already dealing with poverty."
The federal government reported slightly better numbers in January for Obamacare's once-troubled online marketplaces, but Ohio and the nation still fall far short of key demographic goals.
For the first time since HealthCare.gov's glitch-ridden rollout, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) numbers show the amount of new enrollees actually beat projections. About 1,146,100 signed up for Obamacare in January, slightly higher than the 1,059,900 previously projected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
More importantly, a small boost in young adults means 25 percent of 3.3 million enrollees across the nation and 21 percent of 60,000 Ohio enrollees were aged 18 to 34. That's up 1 percentage point for the nation and 2 percentage points for Ohio.
The White House previously said 39 percent of enrollees need to be young adults, who tend to be healthier, to avoid driving up health care costs by filling the insurance pool with older, sicker people who typically use more resources.
HHS' numbers only reflect people who signed up for a health plan, not people who paid for their first premium, which is widely considered the final crucial step to getting covered.
Nearly nine in 10 single, uninsured young adults could qualify for financial assistance through the health care law or free Medicaid, which expanded eligibility in Ohio through Obamacare, according to HHS.


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Do you add a cleaner to the toilet tank? That could have contributed to the failure.
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I have a Toto Drake #ST743S toilet from 2005, and this year I have had to replace both the flapper, which rotted away, and the flush handle assembly, which failed where the brass rod enters the socket in the handle.
My question is: should I replace the flush valve as preventative maintenance, or wait for it to fail? I have a Lowe's nearby and could pick up the Korky 528MPK replacement fill valve.
And, are there any other parts I should consider replacing?
Thanks for your thoughts.
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Do you add a cleaner to the toilet tank? That could have contributed to the failure.
If you have the Korky style valve in there, you can renew with their cap
Or you could just wait.
I installed a Korky stye at my mothers about twenty years ago. I just checked on it last week, and it's fine.
Is this it? Home Despot sells it. Model number is R528CM.
Al T.
So I guess it will fit! I learned from that page that the 528 has been replaced with the 528MP, MaxPerformance model. Is it worth upgrading to the MP model?
Many thanks.
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Toto (and probably many manufacturers) have their valves calibrated so that the tank and the bowl get properly filled without wasting a lot of water. The only easy thing to control, is the tank, since it is adjustable with the float. There are some fill valves that come with adjustable fill for the hose going to the overflow, and that, if you don't use an original valve, is often the easiest thing to use. The OEM valve has a custom orifice to control the proper bowl fill.
But, when you have something like the Korky valve that Toto uses in a bunch of their toilets, the two wear parts, the float (never really goes bad) and the cap assembly are the only moving, wear parts, and the cap is cheap, quick, and easy to replace, so why replace the whole thing?
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To answer your question, will the cap fit or is it worth upgrading to the 528MP, the answer is: buy the cap, and don't get the 528MP.
Terry is right that the basic white cap 528 won't give your toilet the right refill. But that's not what is in there. What is in there is the 528T, which is a Toto part and is the right one for your toilet. Duh -- it came with it.
So just replace the cap and you will be all set.
If the valve ever really breaks -- like it cracks and water is flying out of it or something, then the 528MP is a good substitute because it's a universal valve that you can set so it duplicates the refill ratio of your 528T. But it won't be any better than the 528T, it will just duplicate it.
Based on my experience I would suggest you proactively replace the flush valve with a non-Toto part.
I had a Toto Ultramax professionally installed in 2000, the original fill valve failed within maybe four years and when it failed it leaked onto the floor. The leak was slow enough and out of sight so that we did not realize what was happening for several weeks, until water started dripping into the basement. I replaced that valve with an official Toto valve, special ordered from a local supplier and costing like fifty bucks. That one failed within a few years. I replaced it with a generic valve from the hardware store that cost about ten bucks and has worked flawlessly ever since.
My trip handle also failed as yours did, the pot metal casting simply wore out. So far the Toto replacement part has been ok.
I also had to replace my flapper when I could not get a complete flush unless the handle was held down for five seconds. After a couple supposedly exact replacement parts worked no better, an adjustable Korky 3060 finally worked, allowing me to remove the sign advising guests to hold down the handle.
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As I soon learned, Jacksonville, our college town, had Brother's, if that was your scene.
Anniston had the Whistle Stop, which I later frequented, and the Alabama Show Palace, which I didn't. Oxford had a place called the Copper Penny — I remember the name, but that's it.
At a few other spots around the county, you could find restaurants or frat houses or bars — or dives — that'd let bands play and singers sing for pennies, or less. Some joints catered to country acts, a few to dance music and such, others to that ubiquitous, though rarely inspiring, genre called Southern rock.
That fall, I bumped into a guy in Golden Springs who offered a tip.
"Well, there's the Red Horse …"
His voice trailed off.
"… But I don't go there."
"Why?" I asked.
Well, as any longtime Calhoun Countian knew, the Red Horse Lounge was known for many things. Most aren't worth repeating. As proof, in The Star's archives is a story about the building that used to house the Horse. One sentence is all that's needed: "Rapes, robberies, fights and auto thefts were all reported at the (Red Horse) site."
I never went to the Red Horse.
For some reason, all that flooded back Thursday night while watching the 12-12-12 benefit show for Hurricane Sandy victims on television. None of it had anything to do with Calhoun County; unless I'm wrong, neither The Who, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Kanye West nor Alicia Keys has ever played the Peerless or Brother's. Nirvana? Nope. Eric Clapton? Nope. Roger Waters? Nope. Bon Jovi? Nope. The Boss? Nope.
(Though Jacksonville State, in its musical heyday of old, hosted a nice collection of Hall of Fame-worthy artists, as did Hobson City's clubs, but that's a topic for another day. The only connection between Thursday's show at Madison Square Garden and this little part of Alabama is that Billy Joel gigged at JSU in 1974 to open Pete Mathews Coliseum.)
Except for a few — West and Keys, for instance — nearly all of Thursday's headliners were grandfatherly, if you get my drift. Mick and the boys' average age is older than the Supreme Court's. Eric Clapton and Roger Waters' heads are swathed in gray. Someone should have advised Roger Daltrey to keep his shirt buttoned. (C'mon, Roger, no one wants to see your 68-year-old hairless chest.) Pete Townshend and Joel no longer need combs, to which I can relate. And even the beard sported by R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe was tinged in a salt-and-pepper hue.
If it had been a baseball game, it'd be Old-Timers' Day.
On Twitter, the camps were firmly divided. It either was an embarrassment — Daltry couldn't hit his notes; Mick Jagger's wrinkly face needs no camera-time; give us more of Keys in her red dress and less of McCartney in his jeans — or it was a celebration of mature, Hall of Fame musicians who can still pick it and sing it. There seemed no middle ground.
Of course, that's one of the grand parts of live music: it's organic, unpredictable, dangerous. Regardless of age or ability, musicians are instantly judged — harshly, in some cases. Doesn't matter if you're seeing a stadium act in the ATL or a bar band on Noble Street, or even a praise band at church. They can play or sing, or they can't.
The worst live acts equate to karaoke.
The best ones make us move.
Thursday night showed that time boxes popular musicians into a corner. Part of their popularity is their aura — their stage presence, their inherent sexuality, their allure. Inevitably, age napalms those traits. Visually, Townshend is more retiree than Who legend. Clapton seems quaint, not god-like from his Cream days. But does that mean they shouldn't get up on stage if they still have it?
No, it doesn't.
That's the essence of live music, regardless of style or scope. You want to see talented musicians doing their thing, whether performing for millions on television or for a few friends at the local VFW. If age hasn't rotted their skills, more power to them.
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Neurobiology with my advisor, Adam Weaver. In lectures he connected what we were doing with real-world applications. I am going to be his Teaching Assistant for neurobiology next year. I was really excited when he asked me to do that. We have a great relationship and I can go to him whenever I need something.
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I run a program called Teen Scene through MOVE that works with middle-schoolers who need a place to go after school. I've been on two extended service trips and this May I'll be going to India on a MOVE service trip. There's eight of us going, including student leaders and a faculty leader.
I have the Smuggs pass, I'm involved with VITA where we have good faith discussion groups, and I'm on the varsity volleyball team.
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